Ionosphere And The Magic Of Radio

 Once the radio waves go out of a radio transceiver, they can go a short way to a home nearby or a hundred miles apart, or due to radio propagation they can travel around the globe, but how can this be, if the globe is round and waves would be lost further the horizon.

Image source iStock via blog Lenovo

 Well radio waves journey can go straight up to the atmosphere and there meet the beauty of one of her layers, the ionosphere, who acts as a mirror due to the ions provided by the sun, kiss her goodbye and come back to earth a thousand miles apart from their origin.

Learn more: The Effects of Earth's Upper Atmosphere on Radio Signals

take the weather with you

As a weather enthusiast, I've always been interested in the forecast and amused by the changes at the atmosphere. Clouds and their shape, rain, wind.. and so on.
A year ago I installed a personal weather station at roof level connected by internet to "weather underground", so under its app, I can check my station all over the World and see the current conditions for the local area.

Image by EliasSch

Welcome to my Froggit HP1000  PWS (personal weather station)